The presiding officer the senator from missouri. Mr. Hawley madam president , some months ago, in july of this year, i came to this floor shortly after the conclusion of the Supreme Courts most recent term to lament the ongoing judicial activism, the judicial imperialism that we have seen from this court over this past term and from the Supreme Court for years on end. I quoted the late Justice Scalia who said the imperial judiciary lives, and i said on the floor of this senate it was a shame to say but undeniable that the imperial judiciary continued to live in this country, a judiciary intent, a Supreme Court intent on legislating from the bench, on making up laws that went along with no regard for what the people actually wrote in their statutes or in their laws, and i particularly lamented the position of religious conservatives, people of faith who had seen in this past term for the United States Supreme Court decision after decision, tossing aside the concerns of religious conserv
Good morning. Im jonathan capehart, opinion writer for the Washington Post and welcome to first look, Washington Post onestop shop for news and analysis on the most pressing political issues of the day. This morning we are reviewing an actionpacked week, Amy Coney Barretts nomination, the coronavirus, stimulus talks and, of course, last nights dueling banjos of town halls, one for president donald trump, the other performer Vice President joe biden, the democratic president ial nominee. To get it started to talk about all of this is the Washington Post White House Reporter ashley parker. Thanks so much for being here. Thanks for having me, jonathan. So on the town hall, these dueling debates, did the Trump Campaign achieve its t aim, scheduling the trump townhall at the same time as biden . Well, its the aim in some way was to compete with biden for airtime and overshadow biden. I think yes. Anecdotally, or people seems to be watching thetr trump townhall in real time than the joe bide
First day of testimony in the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for amy coney barrett. I thought the judges Opening Statement was awesome. This was a good day, you can tell there is political differences abound, but if you look at the qualifications of judge barrett, you have to come away impressed. I think she is every bit as qualified as sotomayor and kagan, alito, roberts, cavanaugh, you name it. The qualifications point of view, she is a slamdunk. Aboundnately, Politics Around judges and we will see what happens the next two days. Im proud of the committee. We had stern differences but they were displayed respectfully and i hope that continues till next week. A strategy going now talking about the aca, seems like an effective measure more than on these hearings. Sen. Graham its pretty clear they want to talk about Affordable Health care act in terms of policy, the judge will decide the merits based on the law. In my state theres been a 30 increase in premiums of obamacare and we
Like economic development. I know we are not going to agree on every issue tonight, but i want to go to washington to find common ground. We are facing some tough problems right now with the pandemic, the economy, with health care, and with education. The way to get to the best solution is to do it together. Moderator senator, 60 questions for you seconds for you . Ms. Millermeeks i would like to thank the cedar rapids gazette. , am Mariannette Millermeeks my father was a Master Sergeant in the air force, my mother had gotten a ged. No one in my family had been College Educated though they valued education. Burnt in a16, i was kitchen fire and in that hospitalization, i had an epiphany about my future. I was going to become a doctors i left home at 16, got a job, and rolled in san antonio junior college, enlisted at 18 and worked and went to school until i got a degree in nursing, masters in education, and was able to go to medical school and i came to iowa to do my residency in ophtha
We have all long operated we covered the white house together, weve done that. We know how all president s and their Communications Team try to throw information out there because they want us, they want us to echo that. They want to put that out there. In an amendment such as this that so challenge with the subject of the continued influence the fact, do you change the way you put that information out there . How do you address that reality . You are muted, mara, sorry. This is a really, really, really tough problem. Because were so tribal, because of the tribalizing effects of social media, you know, whatever we do to discuss a piece of misinformation or disinformation, we putting that piece of this information out there and by definition i guess were giving it more life for airtime. Npr is a mainstream News Organization. We try to surround this piece of misinformation or disinformation with as much context and Fact Checking as we can, but what we found, maybe we can talk about this,